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The Monster In The Mirror
By Arundhati Roy
www.countercurrents.org/roy151208.htm
What we’re experiencing now is blowback, the cumulative result of decades of quick fixes and dirty deeds. The carpet’s squelching under our feet. The only way to contain -it would be naïve to say end – terrorism is to look at the monster in the mirror. We’re standing at a fork in the road. One sign says Justice, the other Civil War. There’s no third sign and there’s no going back. Choose.”

The Mumbai Massacre And
Pakistan’s New Nightmares
By Pervez Hoodbhoy
www.countercurrents.org/hoohoy151208.htm
We Pakistanis have to realize that this is a war for our very existence as a civilized nation. Western support for Pakistan must be very judicious and not too overt. Similarly, isolating Pakistan, or inflicting harsh punitive measures, could easily backfire. The Taliban and allied extremists have a real chance of winning in Pakistan. The state is already crumbling in places and it could disintegrate quite rapidly, leaving the fanatics in charge. One cannot think of a bigger disaster for Pakistan

Lessons From The Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
By Prashant Bhushan
www.countercurrents.org/bhushan151208.htm
Unless we deal with the enormous injustices in our society, we cannot eliminate such suicidal terrorism. For this, we need to do many things, but most importantly we need to fix our criminal justice system. We have an insensitive, communal, corrupt and failed judicial system. Neither the political nor the judicial establishment have the political will to fix it. We need a major public campaign for that

Total Defeat For U.S. In Iraq
By Patrick Cockburn
www.countercurrents.org/cockburn151208.htm
The Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), signed after eight months of rancorous negotiations, is categorical and unconditional. Americas bid to act as the worlds only super-power and to establish quasi-colonial control of Iraq, an attempt which began with the invasion of 2003, has ended in failure. There will be a national referendum on the new agreement next July, but the accord is to be implemented immediately so the poll will be largely irrelevant

Excess Debt And Deflation = Depression
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman151208.htm
Given a three-decade US standard of living decline to the present, exacerbated by the intensifying current crisis (very likely to be protracted and deep), it’s very possible those 1930s numbers may be matched or exceeded going forward. If so, it may just take longer before their full effects show up and are felt

Who Do You Think You Are Anyway?
By Timothy V. Gatto
www.countercurrents.org/gatto151208.htm
Let’s stop our government from dancing to the corporate fiddle. So let me ask you again. Who do you think you are? Well, if you really take the time to think about it, you could be one of the many that rise up and stop this corporate run oligarchy

Illinois Citizens Deserve Corrupt Government
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
www.countercurrents.org/joel151208.htm
The current Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, recently charged with crimes by the federal government, just follows in the footsteps of previous convicted Illinois governors and a huge number of other Illinois officials convicted of crimes. What is remarkable is that in the 2008 election Illinois voters had the opportunity to recognize that they needed to use their constitutional convention opportunity to reform state government. They voted not to use it. Which raises the question: How stupid or brainwashed are most Illinois citizens?

Beyond Ableism
By Subhash Gatade
www.countercurrents.org/gatade151208.htm
Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram gave a piece of his mind in a national conference organised by FICCI recently. Addressing the meet on ‘Engaging Industry in Employment of Persons With Disabilities’ he appealed to the captains of industry to ‘show their humanitarian side’ and ‘employ the physically challenged people’.Question naturally arises as what prompted him to issue such an unusual appeal in the gathering

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